Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra (Mozart)


The Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola, Cello and Orchestra in A major, K.Anh 104, is an incomplete composition by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Background

Mozart is believed to have started work on this concerto around the same time as the Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major K. 364. For unknown reasons Mozart abandoned the work after writing 134 bars of the opening movement.

Structure

As completed the work consists of a single movement Allegro.

Completions

Several composers have completed the movement. Around 1870, Otto Bach composed a completion which Dennis Pajot described as having a very obvious join between the part written by Mozart and the part written by Bach. In 1969, Robert D. Levin wrote a completion that was more sympathetic to the surviving material. More recently, composer Hans Ueckert announced he was working on a completion for the Octava Chamber Orchestra. Another composer to have made a completion is Philip Wilby.
Another completion was made by Italian Composer Alessandro Solbiati for I Solisti Aquilani and played first time in Rotterdam during International Viola Congress 2018.